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Modern Architecture in Historic Cities by Sebastian Lowe Publisher Comments This highly topical book explores the factors which contribute to the presence of contemporary architecture in historic areas. Illustrating why France has been so successful in combining conservation and modernity, it points to important lessons for... (read more) List Price $164.95 Your price: $158.76 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic 
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Creating Abundance: Biological Innovation and American Agricultural Development by Alan L. Olmstead Publisher Comments This book demonstrates that American agricultural development was far more dynamic than generally portrayed. In the two centuries before World War II, a stream of biological innovations revolutionized the crop and livestock sectors, increasing both land... (read more) Your price: $94.25 New - Hardcover
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Ethology: The Mechanisms and Evolution of Behavior by James L Gould Publisher Comments The goal of this book is to illustrate the power of ethology's broad and integrative approach in unraveling how behavior, both simple and complex, is organized and orchestrated. The book develops this theme by looking first at traditional ethology to... (read more) List Price $79.85 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships (Qsar) for Pesticide Regulatory Purposes by Emilio Benfenati Publisher Comments Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (QSAR) for Pesticide Regulatory Purposes stems from the experience of the EC funded project DEMETRA. This project combined institutes involved in the regulatory process of pesticides, industries of the sector... (read more) Your price: $262.75 New - Hardcover
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First Farmers by Peter S. Bellwood Publisher Comments First Farmers: the Origins of Agricultural Societies offers readers an understanding of the origins and histories of early agricultural populations in all parts of the world. Uses data from archaeology, comparative linguistics, and biological... (read more) Your price: $120.50 New - Hardcover
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Environmental and Agronomic Evaluation of Value-Added Nitrogen Fortified Poultry Litter and Biosolids Fertilizers. by Mark Stephen Reiter Publisher Comments Phosphorus and N fertilization from poultry litter (PL) can cause water quality concerns, and can be especially troublesome in regions with high concentrations of poultry production. We investigated soil P loss in runoff water after long-term poultry... (read more) Your price: $84.50 New - Trade Paper
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Food and Water Security by U. Aswathanarayana Publisher Comments The UN Millennium Summit of 2000 pledged to halve by 2015 the 850 million undernourished people in the world. Food Security has two principal dimensions: Food Production, and Food Consumption, both of which have to be economically viable in order to be... (read more) List Price $144.95 Your price: $125.08 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Regional Analyses of Constraints Affecting Rice Production Systems in California: Grain Milling Quality at Harvest and Evolution of Herbicide Resistan by Claudia Marchesi Publisher Comments Rice systems in California, despite being highly developed and efficient, present constraints at different levels in its production system when an agro ecological viewpoint is formulated. Though analyses at the plot or field level have denoted... (read more) Your price: $84.50 New - Trade Paper
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Farming with Horses by Steve Bowers Publisher Comments In the early twentieth century, the proliferation of farm tractors dramatically eased the burden on America’s farmers. It seemed the day of the horse-drawn plough was well over. And yet today, with a new generation working smaller spreads for reasons... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $19.48 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The World's Greatest Fix: A History of Nitrogen and Agriculture by G. J. Leigh Publisher Comments In the tradition of Jared Diamond'sGuns, Germs, and Steel, this gives the very early history of how human ingenuity overcame the risk of famine through productive agriculture. Starting with a layman's guide to the chemistry of nitrogen fixation, the book... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $27.70 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology #16: All Flesh Is Grass: Plant-Animal Interrelationships by Joseph Seckbach Publisher Comments This new book takes us through a journey from early life to modern agriculture. The thirty eight authors present current studies on the interrelation of plants-animals. This topic has always fascinated man, as evidenced even by the first chapters of... (read more) Your price: $219.75 New - Hardcover
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Introduction To Animal Science (00 Edition) by Wilson G. Pond Publisher Comments A comprehensive and balanced overview of animal agriculture in contemporary society! It develops the principles of animal biology as a science within the context of life-cycle production of animals for economic and biologic efficiency. Individual... (read more) List Price $241.25 Your price: $165.00 Used - Hardcover
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Plant Science: Growth, Development (5TH 11 Edition) by Margaret E. Mcmahon Publisher Comments Plant Science: Growth, Development, and Utilization of Cultivated Plants, Fifth Edition, is an outstanding resource for anyone with an interest in how plants are grown and utilized for maintaining and adding enjoyment to human life. The text starts with... (read more) List Price $117.50 Your price: $95.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Wildlife Conservation in Zambia: Impact of Game Management Areas on Household Welfare. by Ana Fernandez Publisher Comments This research investigates the impact of wildlife conservation policies on the welfare of communities living in Zambian Game Management Areas (GMAs). The study first uses simple OLS to measure the overall effect that living in a GMA has on household... (read more) Your price: $84.50 New - Trade Paper
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Communist Agriculture: Farming in the Far East & Cuba by Karl-eugen Wadekin Publisher Comments Agriculture has played a key role throughout the communist world and has become a central issue of Marxist-Leninist theory. By the late 1970s, however, it was apparent that the doctrinaire approaches adopted were in need of thorough and pragmatic... (read more) Your price: $231.95 New - Hardcover
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Cultivated Landscapes of Middle America on the Eve of Conquest (Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies) by Thomas M. Whitmore Publisher Comments The human-environment conditions in the Americas on the eve of the sixteenth-century European conquest have of late attracted growing interest in both academic and public circles. Focusing on Middle America, this book completes a trilogy which has made... (read more) Your price: $262.75 New - Hardcover
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Animal Behavior by Tim Halliday Publisher Comments Animal Behavior looks at the fascinating activities of animals as they progress from birth to maturity-how they attract a mate and care for their young, find shelter and food, defend themselves, navigate sometimes vast distances and survive the many... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $13.50 Used - Hardcover
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Agricultural Entomology by Dennis S. Hill Synopsis A global view of the insect groups that are of major significance to worldwide agriculture in its widest sense. It is intended for use as a college text and presupposes a basic knowledge of entomology. All the main insect groups and many of the important... (read more) Your price: $81.50 New - Trade Paper
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Next Green Revolution (02 Edition) by Horne Publisher Comments Explore the benefits of and necessity for sustainable agriculture Here is an easy-to-read, practical introduction to sustainable agriculture: what it means and why it is needed. It is the first book to synthesize the goals of sustainable agriculture into... (read more) List Price $41.95 Your price: $31.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Multiple Criteria Analysis for Agricultural Decisions, Second Edition by C. Romero Publisher Comments This book presents the Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) paradigm for modelling agricultural decision-making in three parts. The first part, comprising two chapters, is philosophical in nature and deals with the concepts that define the... (read more) List Price $126.00 Your price: $121.28 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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